Nawa is part of the government’s defensive line south of Damascus, where rebels are attempting to move up as the government pushes into Eastern Ghouta. A government counter-offensive will require the diversion of men, vehicles, and fuel from other fronts.

It is rumored that the head of the IS, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, was killed in the strike.

Abo Anas al-Shami, an IS leader, walked around al-Bukumal today in order to dispel rumors that he was killed in the strikes.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that medical personnel have said that IS members were killed in the strike, along with 9 civilians, and that 34 people were injured. The injured have been kept under tight guard as they arrive at hospitals.

It’s next to impossible to confirm or deny what leaders were or weren’t killed right now.

No one has claimed credit for the attack, which occured in government-controlled territory.

The Palestinian Committee for Human Rights reported the first Palestinian woman who has been documented as dying under torture in government prisons.

Samira al-Sahli, who was a 53 year old nurse and aid worker in the Yarmouk Refugee Camp in Damascus, was arrested in June by Air Force Intelligence while travelling to a UN office to collect an aid package.

This is in response to a letter that Obama wrote to the Iranian Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in which he reportedly said that coalition airstrikes are only aimed at the Islamic State, and that there was no intention of toppling the Syrian government.

He stayed with his state goal of a political, not a military, solution ultimately resolving the war. He also reiterated that the focus of the airstrikes is against the IS.

“It is still our policy, and it’s an almost absolute certainty, that he has lost legitimacy with such a large portion of the country by dropping barrel bombs and killing children and destroying villages that were defenseless that he can’t regain the kind of legitimacy that would stitch that country back together again.”